SEVERAL TEENAGERS HAVE been left with life-changing injuries after they were hit by a car in D\u00fan Laoghaire, south county Dublin, it\u2019s understood.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re currently being treated in hospitals across Dublin.<\/p>\n
Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Justin Moylan said there was a \u201csurreal sense of shock\u201d in the suburb after Sunday\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n
A car struck the group of young pedestrians \u2013 three boys and three girls, all aged between 13 and 15 \u2013 on Oliver Plunkett Road at around 3pm.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed believe the driver of the car suffered a medical episode just before the collision and lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Three of the teenagers are in Children\u2019s Health Ireland Temple Street and three are in Children\u2019s Health Ireland Crumlin.<\/p>\n
The female driver, aged in her 40s, also remains in hospital receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n
Moylan said: \u201cOur thoughts are with those that are injured and their families, hoping for a recovery for them as quick as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the collision<\/p>\n
They are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.<\/p>\n
Fine Gael councillor Dan Carson also said the local area was in shock, and added: \u201cMy thoughts are with the families affected and the first responders at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
With reporting by Ottoline Spearman, Daragh Brophy, and the Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEVERAL TEENAGERS HAVE been left with life-changing injuries after they were hit by a car in D\u00fan Laoghaire,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28280,615,16089,7782,42,43,287573,9276,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-679452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-car-crash","tag-dublin","tag-dun-laoghaire","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-oliver-plunkett-road","tag-road-traffic-collision","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}